![]() ![]() ![]() His quintets, though they were admired at courts and by the public of aristocratic and bourgeois amateurs, were too closely bound to the particular conditions in which they had been created, and too dependent on the skill of Boccherini as a cellist. From far off Spain, which at the time was practically isolated from the most active European musical schools, Boccherini was admired for his work but did not form a trend he had no imitators or disciples to follow and propagate his lesson. ![]() Mozart: String quintets KV 406, KV 516Īs a musical genre the string quintet had its most authoritative representative, during the eighteenth century, in the Italian Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) who composed some 113 quintets for two violins, viola and two 'cellos. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |